If you had only encountered your first love ONE TIME (the initial time) and never saw them again, would you still remember them today?

They wouldn’t have been my love if I only had encountered them once.

That initial impression does attract you, though—does it not?

Sure, but for me, that’s attraction or possibly infatuation only at that point.

No. In fact I may have encountered him (assuming it wasn’t Rick) somewhere in my life and didn’t know it.

Unless it happened, how would I know such a thing?

Yeah. How would you know?...

I don’t know. That was back in the second grade.

I did she didn’t.

I still remember the woman I met at a party in Aspen CO in 1984. She asked me to join in a ski race the next day, I said I was leaving town, she said I could move in with her. Almost quit my job and moved to Aspen….

Well, speaking from experience, yes, as long as they made an impression on me. But I’m sure there are many people who could have been “loves” but I didn’t notice them in a way to make such an impression.

I have a good memory, and remember quite a few people, even people I’ve only briefly met. Though I have a hard time with names for quite a while.

Doubtful. I can not often recall what I went upstairs to get.

Let’s see…my high school boyfriend (not sure if that was “love”) I would probably remember t he first time I met him just due to the circumstances.

My college boyfriend, who was my first real love, and later became my ex husband…I wouldn not remember the first time I met him. We worked together at a movie theater.

My husband, I would absolutely remember the first time I met him as we had been online friends and more for about a year before that.

Her name was Linda, and she had a beauty that fascinated me and though I can still see her pretty face its glamour is long since gone. We danced together at the school dance and I stood on her foot and that was the end of that.

Could these “love at first sights,” not simply be qualified as lust?

I don’t know. He sat behind me in history class. If he had never been flirtatious eventually asking me out would I remember him from that one class? I think it’s doubtful.

@MrGrimm888 ^ I’ve gotta second that one!

I didn’t think this was about love at first sight. I was talking about the first guy I seriously dated for a long time.

@MrGrimm888 I have several that could not be fairly called that, no.

It doesn’t have to be someone you thought you were in love with. Just someone you were strongly attracted to.

I remember several encounters in my younger days with girls who I never saw again or never got a number. Or sometimes, even a name in one case. I still remember some of them very well.

This is especially true with girls I met at summer camp.

My first “love” who I went steady with (that’s what we did back then) for nine months, until she moved away—I met her on the night of a church hayride one night about a week before Christmas. That was a truly unforgettable night, and had I never seen her again after that night (I did not have a number), I’m sure I’d still remember that night and wonder what became of her,

First love is too vague. I mean is a 10 year old with a crush on the “first love” map?

Probably not. But if you met your first love in your mid teens it might count. You probably weren’t actually “in love” when you first met, but probably strongly attracted. That might have become your first love if the relationship lasted more than half a year. Not all would qualify but some definitely would.

It is possible to meet your first love at age ten, but it probably wouldn’t be chartable as a “first love” unless the relationship lasted into the mid teens, if even then.

That’s what I’m talking about. I don’t know where that attraction/love line is, but I have vivid memories of an 11 year old declaring her love and more than ready to kick my ass to prove it.